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Court rules for drugmakers over HHS in 340B fight over contract pharmacies

Healthcare Dive

The decision is a win for drug manufacturers Sanofi, Novo Nordisk and AstraZeneca. The companies sued the HHS after regulators ordered them to stop restricting sales of 340B drugs to contract pharmacies.

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Leveraging augmented reality to enhance workflow simulation and product demonstration

Healthcare It News

Healthcare organizations are facing unprecedented challenges: high staff turnover leading to nursing burnout, hiring of temp/travel staff requires regular onboarding and hits tight budgets, and scheduling in-person meetings and trainings can become bottlenecks. Mixed Reality simulation offers a fully virtual, on-demand tool. Users can train where they want, when they want reducing scheduling bottlenecks and reducing training T&E spend.

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Insurance lobby blasts Medicare Advantage audit rule

Healthcare Dive

America’s Health Insurance Plans lobby said the rule seeking to claw back billions of dollars from health insurers is unlawful and fatally flawed.

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Intermountain and Story Health partner on specialty care for heart failure

Healthcare It News

Intermountain Health is looking to artificial intelligence and high-touch coaching to increase care personalization and medication adherence for patients with heart failure. WHY IT MATTERS Coaches from Story Health, which helps develop personalized care plans using clinical data, will be available to answer Intermountain patients' questions via text or call.

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

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Persistent, heightened labor expenses pummeled hospitals last year, Kaufman Hall reports

Healthcare Dive

Negative margins and heightened labor expenses continued for hospitals in 2022, causing them to suffer their worst financial year since the pandemic began, according to the report.

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South Carolina’s Abortion Debates: A Game of Ping Pong

Bill of Health

By Katie Gu On January 5, the South Carolina Supreme Court permanently struck down Senate Bill 1 (S.B. 1), also known as the Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act , which banned most abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy. The decision was issued just five days before the state’s General Assembly returned for 2023, setting into motion a game of ping pong between the state branches of government in South Carolina’s abortion debates.

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TPRM Is In Crisis, But It’s Not Too Late to Change

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Brian Selfridge, healthcare cybersecurity and risk leader, CORL Technologies. For anyone invested in Third Party Risk Management (TPRM), the last few years have been at once painful and heartening. On the painful side of […] The article TPRM Is In Crisis, But It’s Not Too Late to Change appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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The Transformation in Behavioral Digital Health Services

Healthcare Law Blog

This blog is the second installment of our Digital Health Trends series. Overview Digital health services have exploded since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and behavioral health services have seen large increases in utilization. Prior to the pandemic, telehealth visits for mental health or substance use disorder represented less than 1% of outpatient visits, but by mid-2020 nearly 40% of telehealth outpatient visits were for mental health or substance use.

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Private Equity Coming To Rural Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. A new report by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP), “Private Equity Descends on Rural Healthcare,” provides an unprecedented look at the private equity industry’s incursion into rural healthcare. The findings were led by PESP […] The article Private Equity Coming To Rural Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Pro-Russian Hacking Group Conducting DDoS Attacks on U.S. Hospitals

HIPAA Journal

The pro-Russian hacking group, Killnet, is conducting a campaign of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on U.S. hospitals in apparent retaliation for U.S. support of Ukraine. The attacks started a few days after the United States and other countries agreed to provide tanks to Ukraine to help with the fight against the Russian invasion. Killnet is a hacktivist group that has been active since at least January 2022 and its activities are connected to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Health Information Network (HIN) Data Exchange Performance Metrics To Date

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Particle Health, a developer-friendly API platform for bi-directional healthcare data exchange, announced the availability of its white paper that highlights the most comprehensive view of Health Information Network data performance available to date and provides […] The article Health Information Network (HIN) Data Exchange Performance Metrics To Date appeared first on electronichealthrepor

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Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company partners with digital cancer care tool

Mobi Health News

OncoPower users will have access to Cost Plus Drug's prescriptions through the partners' Medication Savings Suite.

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Health Care Portals: Looking Beyond the Patients’ Horizon

Healthcare IT Today

A previous article, “ Patient Scheduling and Pre-Visit Intake: Let’s Give Patients What They’re Asking For ” discussed technological solutions to patients’ frustrating scheduling experience. This article addresses the entirety of the patient experience, and its interdependence with the staff experience. Technology has the potential to improve both simultaneously.

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GOP lawmakers ready to scrap Oracle Cerner's $16B VA contract unless 'deeply flawed' EHR fixed

Fierce Healthcare

GOP lawmakers ready to scrap Oracle Cerner's $16B VA contract unless 'deeply flawed' EHR fixed hlandi Tue, 01/31/2023 - 20:39

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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What the end of the federal COVID-19 emergency means for healthcare

Modern Healthcare

Here’s what to know about the federal healthcare policies that will expire when the COVD-19 public health emergency declaration ends in May.

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Employers hope to address parents' concerns about their kids' mental health

Fierce Healthcare

Employers hope to address parents' concerns about their kids' mental health fdiamond Tue, 01/31/2023 - 07:39

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AI drug developer Alto Neuroscience raises $25M and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Cough monitoring company C-mo Medical Solutions and sexual healthcare provider TBD Health also announced funding rounds.

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COVID-19 vaccines, boosters keep kids out of the ER: study

Fierce Healthcare

COVID-19 vaccines, boosters keep kids out of the ER: study fdiamond Tue, 01/31/2023 - 15:33

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

Speaker: Amy Anderson

FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.

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Lunit's AI boosts Guardant Health's cancer detection capability

Mobi Health News

The AI integration has improved the biomarker detection of the Guardant cancer protein test by over 20%.

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HPS/PayMedix Closes on $25 Million in New Funding

Healthcare IT Today

Credit funds managed by SVB Capital lead new funding round to finance growth of PayMedix Healthcare Payment Solution Health Payment Systems, Inc. (HPS)/PayMedix today announced it has raised another $25 million of funding to accelerate the growth of its groundbreaking PayMedix healthcare financing solution. Credit funds managed by SVB Capital , the venture capital and credit investing arm of SVB , led the financing, and were also joined by all current HPS|PayMedix investors including SV Heal

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Federal appeals court sides with drugmakers on 340B contract pharmacy restrictions

Fierce Healthcare

Federal appeals court sides with drugmakers on 340B contract pharmacy restrictions dmuoio Tue, 01/31/2023 - 12:50

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Dramatically Improving Population Health Through Remote Patient Monitoring Data

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Anish Sebastian, CEO and Co-Founder of Babyscripts. As winter storms sweep the country and complicate transportation, healthcare access becomes a front-and-center issue. Rural hospitals across the U.S. are shuttering their labor, delivery, and maternity wards , in many cases closing altogether. Pregnant women in remote rural areas are even more at risk this winter than previous years.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Former Oracle exec Troy Tazbaz tapped as FDA director of digital health

Fierce Healthcare

Former Oracle exec Troy Tazbaz tapped as FDA director of digital health aburky Tue, 01/31/2023 - 15:29

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New digital service delivers vital information for renal care

Digital Health News

Digital Health and Care Wales has developed a new digital service to support renal patients, by making vital information available to staff who need it.

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CVS Health goes live with virtual care service with a focus on primary care, mental health

Fierce Healthcare

CVS Health goes live with virtual care service with a focus on primary care, mental health hlandi Tue, 01/31/2023 - 13:54

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U.S. Health Insurance Coverage and Financing

Center for Health Insurance Reform

In a new Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine, CHIR's Sabrina Corlette and Christine Monahan help readers navigate the United States' patchwork system of health insurance coverage, where people’s access to services and level of financial protection — not to mention whether they have coverage at all — varies depending on their birthplace, age, job, income, location, and health status.

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.

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Blue Shield of California teams with Accolade on new virtual-first plan

Fierce Healthcare

Blue Shield of California teams with Accolade on new virtual-first plan pminemyer Tue, 01/31/2023 - 15:58

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HC3: KillNet Hacktivist Group Uses DDoS Cyberattacks to Target Healthcare

Health IT Security

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Texas doctors file new surprise billing lawsuit challenging arbitration fees

Fierce Healthcare

Texas doctors file new surprise billing lawsuit challenging arbitration fees rking Tue, 01/31/2023 - 18:00

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Headspace Health expands care services outside the U.S.

Mobi Health News

The digital mental health company said it would start offering its clinical care services to businesses in the U.K. and expand into other international markets this year.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.